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I think he just had his “Biden Debate” moment.

@hecubian_devil @_glorianas Like in the book “It Can’t Happen Here” by Sinclair Lewis. There’s a lady who aids the fascist and her whole schtick is this conservative care for women. Unironically a lot of women today would Stan her

@hecubian_devil @_glorianas So being a “girls girl” on love island, Instagram, TikTok, or other forms of media is less about the actual politic and more about signaling authenticity. It’s made worse because people have no historical understanding of sexism.

This sort of interaction is useful to explain that ‘Gen Z feminism’ basically does not exist—there is no new feminist theory in dialogue with previous forms, because no one reads or writes more than posts. They call porn “a zionist degeneracy” because they absorb right wing content that blames The Jews for porn and promiscuity. At the same time, they claim to love Dworkin (who was a Zionist) because they’ve never read more than excerpts of her that got reposted on instagram or tumblr. It’s all the same thing: the ideologically incoherent consequence of being fed slop (including human-produced slop) that social media algorithms tune to deliver only that which validates your instincts and emotions. They call themselves feminists because they’ve internalized that’s a good thing to be, and because they’ve found a way to act out “feminism” that’s also like “hyper femininity” which they deeply want to express. It goes in with a constellation of other markers like coquettish aesthetics, chastity, melancholy, thinness, etc, as proof of their exquisite femininity. Their “feminism” is an exercise in personal branding, in negating Maleness as thoroughly as possible, as marking themselves Female as much as possible. That’s why it’s incoherent, because it’s a feminism fundamentally uninterested in the *liberation of women* but rather in the social position and aesthetic of individual women trying to embody their idealized form of gender roles. So it’s not really a theory of “feminism” in the sense of analysis and action concerned with the liberation of women from patriarchy. It’s just been reduced to individual aesthetic expression.

“Why does Patrick Ball know the word ‘canon’? That’s a fandom word and he’s 36.” Okay first of all ‘canon’ is a biblical term but also he’s 36 not 80

Until death removes you from this world, reset button is forever pressable.

@GeauxGabrielle People don't understand the severity of the crisis. Even if your trip is not cancelled, you should not go. Get your money back and use it to prepare.

Everybody’s summer vacations are canceled because of the oil crisis Trump created. The oil companies will soon be declaring what is called “force majeure” which is a clause in alot of contracts that says “due to unforeseen circumstances we cannot provide you with the service we promised” (i.e. oil)

every time i see someone say we should be stocking up on prescription medication i want to scream. it doesn’t WORK THAT WAY

Can you imagine when Americans show up to the airport& they find out the flight is grounded. Then after that, they have to close smaller airports. Then bigger ones. Half the restaurants closed because there’s not enough food. Staff that can’t make it to work. That’s coming

it has kept many an idiot from falling into “monitoring spirit” psychosis

@constans I like the idea that “the revolutionary left” is anything more than a bunch of socially maladjusted Twitter dipshits.

It's almost impossible to wrap your head around the immensity of the coming crisis. There's basically a few weeks left of pretty much everything before the shit hits the fan in ways that will be written and talked about forever

"imagine if a white person did..." and it'll be something done every single day between 1619 and 2026.

Coming from someone who didn’t game almost at all growing up, I feel like the gaming community cares about such trivial things. I’ll play a game and really enjoy it just to see comments hating the entire game because the water graphics don’t look real enough?? 😭😭

Again, familiarizing people with the concept of "If you ever need to rapidly mobilize a protest, here's the local spot to meet up; if you see a friend or a neighbor today, that's someone you'd reach out to" outweighs whatever other criticism you can have with the No Kings stuff.

This needs to become illegal. It is data collection + intimidation of existing employees + stock market manipulation + HR pretending to be working. Literally nothing is good about it and it damages the social fabric a lot.

Yuta and Rika in the latest episode of JJK:

DOGE didn't fail. It was never meant to reduce debt. It was meant to syphon your personal data to Elon Musk and his friends private businesses and gut agencies they don't like or that try to hold them accountable. It was a stunning success actually.

r u like 15 or something